Click or swipe through the slideshow above for the craziest secrets and stories in BART history.

Last month, KPIX published a fun story from the annals of BART history. Back in the 1960s, Oakland mayor John Houlihan lobbied BART to relocate a critical stretch of track to accommodate the demands of the owner of Simon Hardware Store, which was then located on the 800 block of Broadway. As a result, the trains run slower as they approach the 12th Street Oakland station.

This anecdote appears in Michael Healy's indispensable book "BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System," which chronicles the transit system from its status as a pie-in-the-sky idea to its present-day status as a vital part of the Bay Area landscape. Healy ought to be a trusted authority on this story: he served as the head of the agency's media and public affairs for 32 years. After reading the story of the hardware store, we wondered: what other secrets of BART's history are buried in Healy's book?